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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

How to properly recover a central file in Revit

To properly
recover a Revit file you will need to do the following:

Copy
the backup folder to a location without the central file (this step is
critical to prevent the corruption in the project from stopping the
recovery).

Start
Revit

Open
the software>from the ribbon go to the Collaborate tab>then to
Restore Backup.

Navigate
to where the central file is stored. You will see a folder with the
central files name_backup.

Since you copied the Revit Project Backup Folder,(Revit can't find the .rvt file) so you will see:Click Yes!

You
will now get a list of times when the backup was saved periodically
throughout the day. Something similar to this: (mine shows only one since I only made one version for this example). Try the most recent so you will have your most recent work!!

Click
Save As and navigate to a location to save the recovered file.

After saving, Revit will ask you:

HECK YEAH, I wanna open it!! (click Yes)

Verify
you are able to open it successfully. If you are not you may need to go
through steps 1-7 to find an older save backup file.